Yale’s Haiti medical relief team has returned from the earthquake-ravaged nation. Meanwhile, efforts continue on campus to raise funds to help victims of the disaster and to raise awareness about the conditions there.Medical team returnsThe six-member...
Juvenile justice, segregation and school reform, reducing drug crime without putting people in prison, and Muslim Americans and the legal professions are among the topics that will be addressed at the 16th annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference, held at...
New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine to...
Seymour B. Sarason, who is credited with founding the discipline of community psychology and was a longtime member of the Yale faculty, died on Jan. 29 in New Haven. He was 91.Sarason, professor emeritus of psychology, joined the Yale faculty in 1945 and...
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Alberto Manguel, internationally acclaimed essayist, novelist, anthologist, translator and editor, will deliver the Finzi-Contini Lecture under the auspices of the Whitney Humanies Center (WHC).Manguel’s talk, titled “Borges and the...
Yale Law School professor emeritus and alumnus Daniel J. Freed, a pioneer in the criminal justice process and a key figure in the development of clinical education at the Law School, died Jan. 17 in New York. He was 82.Freed was clinical professor...
John Edwin Smith, an early champion of the tradition of American philosophy who taught at Yale for nearly 40 years, died on Dec. 7 while visiting his daughter in Arlington, Virginia. He was 88 years old.Smith’s many publications include “Reason and God,...
Bruce Gordon, the newly appointed Titus Street Professor of Theology, is a specialist in late-medieval and early-modern religious history.His particular interests include the Swiss and German Reformations, Bibles, devotional literature, the clergy, death...
Oona A. Hathaway, newly designated as the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, focuses her current research on the intersection of domestic and international law.Hathaway is the author of the “Strong States: Strong World:...
Jean Peters, the inaugural Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, specializes in advocacy for children, children and the law, refugee and asylum law, and advocacy for parents.Peters is also the supervising attorney of the Law School’s Jerome N. Frank...